As part of the Ocean County College Foundation’s Blauvelt Speaker Series, author and education scholar Robert Pondiscio will visit the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28. The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

Pondiscio “is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on K–12 education, curriculum, teaching, school choice and charter schooling,” said OCC media liaison Dori Londres.